Re: how do i change to lenny?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:33:03PM +0100, mess-mate wrote:
> Jeff Soules wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge.
> >>
> >
> >Preferred by whom, for what reason?
Preferred by whoever authorized the release notes. Good enough for me.
> > I've always been much happier
> >with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse.
> >When I upgraded from etch to lenny, apt-get gave me useful feedback
> >that helped me fix things; aptitude wanted to mark my entire system
> >for purge, for no specified reason...
If you use the curses interface, it tells you exactly why it wants to do
what for every package.
> I just moved from sarge to lenny like this:
> - changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to lenny
> - did an apt-get update
> - after that a apt-get dist-upgrade.
> All goes well, no 1 problem.
>
> Remarks: if you have kdm installed, on the dist-upgrade of kdm, kdm is
> launched and you'd log out of them to continue the dist-upgrade !
Another reason not to do an upgrade from within X.
Doug.
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